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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Percentile
Phonological Awareness
Phonics approach
Accommodation
2. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Social language
Old English
Raw score
Phonics
3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Battery
Macron
Orthography
Phonology
4. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Frank Smith
Adolf Kusmaul
Comprehension
5. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Dyslexia
Great Vowel Shift
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Impulsivity
6. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Achievement test
Anna Gillingham
Norm-referenced tests
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
7. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Open Syllable
Age equivalent
Receptive language
8. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Vowel
Chall's Stage 2
Analytic
9. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Expressive language
Accent
Vr
Mastery level
10. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Percentile
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
ESL
Phonemic/ decodable words
11. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Modification
Progress Monitoring
Accent
Syntax
12. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Age equivalent
Syllable
Tilde
Digraph
13. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Phoneme
Vr
Chall's Stage 3
Visual Learners
14. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Battery
Syllable Instruction
Kinesthetic
Cognition
15. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Battery
Semantics
ESL
16. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Anglo Saxon
Norm-referenced tests
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Cedilla
17. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Cognition
Frank Smith
Standardized test
18. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
SBOE
V-e
Standardized test
19. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Breve
Visual Processing
Quadrigraph
20. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Stanine Scores
Mathew Effect
21. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Impulsivity
Rate
22. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Tactile
Standard deviation
Accommodation
Tilde
23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Consonant Digraph
Social language
Latin layer of language
24. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Mastery level
GORT
Phonological Awareness
Open Syllable
25. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Criterion referenced tests
The Norman Conquest
Morphology
Multi-Sensory Approach
26. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Great Vowel Shift
Three Layers of Language
Modern English
Composite Score
27. Feeling through fingertips
ESL
James Hinshelwood
Battery
Tactile
28. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Chall's Stage 0
Comprehension
MSLE
Criterion referenced tests
29. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Middle English
Fluency
Morphology
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
30. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
The Norman Conquest
Cedilla
Grade equivalents
Base Word
31. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Percentile
Receptive language
Mastery level
Norm-Referenced Test
32. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Accommodation
33. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Mathew Effect
Grapheme
Consonant Digraph
Kinesthetic
34. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Linguistic Method
Chall's Stage 4
Norm-Referenced Test
Consonant
35. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Adolf Kusmaul
Receptive language
Syllable
Consonant Digraph
36. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
IEP
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
37. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Morpheme
V-e
Sound Symbol Association
Cognitive Assessment
38. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Standard score
Breve
Chall's Stage 5
39. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Grade equivalents
Morpheme
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
40. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Letter naming Chart
Six basic types of syllables
Old English
41. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Multisensory
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Derivative
Visual Learners
42. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Open Syllable
Pre-English
Cognitive Assessment
Age equivalent
43. Whole body learning
Visual Learners
Syntax
GORT
Kinesthetic
44. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
The Norman Conquest
Accuracy
Chall's Stage 1
Digraph
45. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Oral Language
Criterion referenced tests
Age equivalent
Dyslexia
46. Wide Range Achievement Test
Whole Language
Analytic
WRAT
Auditory Learners
47. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Components of Reading Instruction
Whole Language
Multisensory
ADHD
48. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Samuel T. Orton
Kinesthetic
Expressive language
Breve
49. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Six basic types of syllables
Composite Score
Trigraph
Affix
50. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Modern English
Cognition
Morphology
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